Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1974. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.74001432- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 1,676 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 1,676 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Chagrin Falls Township Hall between 1893 and
1975: 1,603 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G, Adams and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Chagrin Falls Township Hall: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Chagrin Falls, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rainfall of 1.5 to almost 3 inches fell between 1 and 4 pm causing flash flooding in Chagrin Falls. Water was flowing from upstream in Geauga County to the Chagrin Falls area and residents reported a 6-foot wall of water moved through the neighborhood and destroyed the wall of a walk out basement on Elm Court. Numerous other basements in the area were flooded. Several roads had to be closed due to the flooding. Rapid rises occurred on the Chagrin River with the water running swiftly and at high capacity.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
1,408 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
example of the concern for historic preservation. The original plat of Chagrin Falls of 1837 provided for a Public Square where the township hall stands. For several years it was osed to build a public lecture hall and library for the village. was a lecture and demonstration in 1848 on galvanism, a form building to a private owner. Still later the building served as added in the Victorian style in 1875. The büilding retained this form until 1943.
After a destructive fire, it was restored restored after a fashion in 1943, rather than demolished or Commerce losophy Engineering Conservation Architecture Science Transportation Theater Communications Religion/Phi Aboriginal Education Literature NATIONAL REGISTER Agriculture Military Prehistoric Pre-Columbian of hypnotism, and the "so-called science of biology." Sculpture Social/Human- Invention Music Urban Planning concern for historic preservation. The many alterations, rather than detracting from the historic completely altered, is significant evidence of the growing Political years later Mr.Champion removed the books and sold the as a one-story building.
in the development of nineteenth century taste, and as an early 1875 remodeling show the changes in nineteenth century taste imposed on an earlier style.The fact that the building was It was completed in 1848.Among the public meetings held there This isa significant building in the local history of the village, 1875; 1943 A few JUL 2 a private school operated by the Rev. E.D. Taylor. In 1864 Art itarian it was acquired by the township trustees.A second story was 1974 Falls, 1969; reprint of 1903 Exponent clippings written in 1874), 33-35.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 74001432, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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